Ohio's two previous governors, Democrat Ted Strickland, left, and Republican Bob Taft, shake hands after a sharing the stage as speakers on a panel about making politics work again in America.

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Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

None of the panelists at a Tuesday town hall meeting on what's wrong with American politics sounded particularly confident that lawmakers in Washington D.C. would find a way to pay the federal government's bills on time.

"I think every thinking person would say we won't do this," said former Democratic Ohio Governor Ted Strickland on the possibility of America defaulting on its debts, "but there are some folks in Washington who aren't thinking."

Billed as the third in a series of "National Conversations on American Unity," the hybrid town hall at Ohio State University was a partnership ...